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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Brad Warner

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
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Garden Light Tree
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Buddhist Morality Wells
Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
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Miracle Real Secret
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
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Expectations Head Knows Thoughts
Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
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Needs Perspective Unique
As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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Enlightenment People Reality
So I’m skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it’s only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That’s why I’ve stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.
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Cynical Long Path
I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad’s idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here’s mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it’s like they’re trying to pretend it’s not there.
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Book Sex Writing
People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.
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Enlightenment People Powerful
I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he’s gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.
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Mean People Water
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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Body Brain Thinking
We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there’s no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here…Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.
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Believe Choice Poetry Somewhere
It’s sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it’s important to remember they weren’t always separate realms of inquiry.
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Ideas Innovation Philosophy
What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn’t even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.
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Firsts Genuine Teacher
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
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Action Morality Real
I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I’ll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.
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Different Remember Writing

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